12 See also Concourse B was built in 1975 for Eastern Air Lines as part of the airport's ambitious "Program 70's" initiative and first opened in 1983 During the 1980s the existing concourse was rebuilt and expanded and a new immigration and customs hall was built in the Concourse B section of the terminal allowing the concourse to process international arrivals Along with Concourse C and most of Concourse D it served as Eastern Air Lines' historical base of operations, Popular music The area from Orlando to the tip of the Florida peninsula was at one point a single drainage unit When rainfall exceeded the capacity of Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River floodplain it spilled over and flowed in a southwestern direction to empty into Florida Bay Prior to urban and agricultural development in Florida the Everglades began at the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee and flowed for approximately 100 miles (160 km) emptying into the Gulf of Mexico the limestone shelf is wide and slightly angled instead of having a narrow deep channel characteristic of most rivers the vertical gradient from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay is about 2 inches (5.1 cm) per mile creating an almost 60-mile (97 km) wide expanse of river that travels about half a mile (0.8 km) a day This slow movement of a broad shallow river is known as sheetflow and gives the Everglades its nickname River of Grass Water leaving Lake Okeechobee may require months or years to reach its final destination Florida Bay the sheetflow travels so slowly that water is typically stored from one wet season to the next in the porous limestone substrate the ebb and flow of water has shaped the land and every ecosystem in South Florida throughout the Everglades' estimated 5,000 years of existence the motion of water defines plant communities and how animals adapt to their habitats and food sources, The Miami accent is a regional accent of the American English dialect spoken in South Florida particularly in Miami-Dade Broward Palm Beach and Monroe counties the accent was born in central Miami but has expanded to the rest of South Florida in the decades since the 1960s the Miami accent is most prevalent in American-born South Floridian youth. The Miami Masters is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and WTA Premier tennis event whereas the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships is an ATP World Tour 250 event. Bayfront Park Shaquille O'Neal 2012 (Ed.D.) Former NBA player rapper actor sports analyst Weston Gusman Center for the Performing Arts Downtown Miami.
Climate chart (explanation) Everglades Boca Del Mar In the 1980s Miami started to see an increase in immigrants from other nations such as Haiti As the Haitian population grew in Miami the area known today as "Little Haiti" emerged centered on Northeast Second Avenue and 54th Street in 1985 Xavier Suarez was elected as Mayor of Miami becoming the first Cuban mayor of a major city in the 1990s the presence of Haitians was acknowledged with Haitian Creole language signs in public places and ballots during voting. . Sargassum fish (Histrio histrio) By the early 1940s Miami was still recovering from the Great Depression when World War II started Though many of the cities in Florida were heavily affected by the war and went into financial ruin Miami remained relatively unaffected Early in the war German U-boats attacked several American ships including the Portero del Llano which was attacked and sunk within sight of Miami Beach in May 1942 to defend against the U-boats Miami was placed in two military districts the Eastern Defense Command and the Seventh Naval District. . . Miami Modern Architecture or MiMo a style that originated in Miami in the 1950s as seen in the Bacardi Building in Midtown built in 1963 and dedicated as a historic site in 2009. 2 Extent and data During the mid-1930s the Art Deco district of Miami Beach was developed Also during this time on February 15 1933 an assassination attempt was made on President-elect Franklin D Roosevelt While Roosevelt was giving a speech in Miami's Bayfront Park Giuseppe Zangara an Italian anarchist opened fire Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago who was shaking hands with Roosevelt was shot and died two weeks later Four other people were wounded but President-elect Roosevelt was not harmed Zangara was quickly tried for Cermak's murder and was executed by the electric chair on March 20 1933 in Raiford Florida, Miami-Dade County is only about 6 feet (1.8 m) above sea level It is rather new geologically and is at the eastern edge of the Florida Platform a carbonate plateau created millions of years ago Eastern Dade is composed of Oolite limestone while western Dade is composed mostly of Bryozoa Miami-Dade is among the last areas of Florida to be created and populated with fauna and flora mostly in the Pleistocene; .
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